Last Days Watchman

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Russia vs. the LGBT Globalists

A Climate of Hate and Fear

By Dr.
Scott Lively

Whenever
and wherever normal people resist the mainstreaming of homosexuality, the LGBT
movement and its allies attribute that resistance to “a climate of hate and
fear” orchestrated by evil “homophobes” who exploit the prejudices of the
ignorant by telling lies about “gay and lesbian people” who “just want equal
rights.” They predict a wave a violence against “sexual minorities” and then
set out to create their own evidence in support of it, all for the purpose of
manipulating public opinion and public officials into the role of “protectors
of the innocent.”

Here
in America the strategy was first initiated on a small scale with human rights
commissions at the local level in the 1970s, then at the state level and
finally nationally in conjunction with the current massive leftist campaign to
create a constitutional right to “gay marriage” by judicial fiat. Homosexualist
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy famously struck down the federal Defense
of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor on the grounds that opposition to
homosexual “marriage” was motivated by “animus” (hatred). SCOTUS will likely
use the same false logic when it rules for “gay marriage” this summer (absent a
miraculous intervention by God).

This
dangerous LGBT strategy has now gone global and the target is the Russian
Federation.

To
those who don’t fully recognize the Machiavellian character of the LGBT
movement, or the extent to which the American media (even to an increasing
extent FOX News) has become a sort-of “Gay Pravda,” what I’m about to state may
seem crazy, but bear with me.

Not that it doesn’t also serve
other globalist interests, but I have come to believe that protecting and
advancing the LGBT agenda is the primary reason that Barack Obama orchestrated
the coup to start a civil war in Ukraine. (See this excellent article on the
theme that Obama‘s foreign policy is ideologically-driven, though it doesn‘t
specifically address the homosexual agenda: http://us-russia.org/2934-stratfors-george-friedman-and-realism-in-american-foreign-policy.html.)

To
the Obama administration this is, literally, again literally, what is meant by
“American values,” though most people don’t grasp this and still translate the
phrase to something benign and wholesome such as “Mom and Apple Pie” or the like.
TO BO, core values are not freedom of speech — that’s clearly trumped by “gay
rights” in his world. Nor economic freedom — you can’t run a business that
refuses to bake cakes, take photos, or provide flowers for “gay weddings.” Core
American values to Obama are publicly celebrated sodomy and doctor-assisted
transsexual self-mutilation.

In
this commitment to “gay rights” BO is joined by and represents an ideological
cartel of global elitists who have cooperated together to force it upon the
world. More on that in a later essay.

The Russian anti-propaganda law,
passed June 11, 2013, was the first truly effective international
counter-measure since the "gay" agenda went global around the turn of
the millennium. Typically, the “gays” characterized the law as hateful and an
incitement to violence, but in doing so they revealed that propagandizing
children is part of their agenda, since the law simply classifies
"propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships" as material that
cannot be distributed among minors and commands the government to protect
children from it. http://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/37129/13-06-27-russia-LA.pdf

Just
after the passage of this law Barack Obama did an about-face on the
"reset" policy (in which Russia had been recognized as an equal
partner in the world community) and instead began reviving cold-war rhetoric.

Nuland
said “F*** the EU,” because it resisted the plan for forced Ukraine regime
change as inimical to it’s business interests but (in my view) the US didn‘t
care because it‘s interests were ideological and punitive.

BO
knew, of course, that Ukraine to the Russians was the strategic equivalent of
Cuba, or even Hawaii, to the US and they could never simply acquiesce to the
transfer of their most critical warm-water port in Crimea and oil interests in
the east to a hostile US-controlled regime.

The
Russians were deliberately pushed into a situation where they could be
portrayed as bullies — rather like the way a couple of “gay” activists set up
the conservative State of Texas as aggressors. They (allegedly) orchestrated
their own arrest for sodomy so they could portray themselves as victims to a
Supreme Court majority (led by Kennedy again) looking for a chance to strike
down the anti-sodomy laws. Thus we got the 2003 Lawrence v Texas ruling, which
was used as the “moral impetus” for the first “gay marriage” law in
Massachusetts in 2004.

Texas
wasn’t breaking down anyone’s door to enforce its sodomy law (any more than the
Russians were aggressing against Ukrainians before the US coup) but was pushed
into doing so by LGBT agents provocateur. No
one produces better agents provocateur than the LGBT movement, which has
presumably been well represented in the US intelligence agencies since Bill
Clinton lifted the ban on top-secret security clearance for “gays” in August
2,1995.

After the Ukraine coup d’etat, BO
and his media stooges then joined with anti-family GOP snake-in-the-grass John
McCain and his fellow neo-cons (and their media stooges) in a relentless
campaign of war propaganda on the theme that Russia is intent on reconstructing
the evil Soviet empire. In just over a year Obama and McCain et al, have turned
Russia into a pariah state in the view of the US and EU sheeple, based on
nothing but disingenuous portrayals of the Ukraine crisis and unsupported
fear-mongering that Russia intends military adventures against the Baltic
states.

And
while we’re on the subject of Republicans, don’t believe for a second that the
GOP establishment is not kowtowing to “gay rights” behind the scenes just as
much as the Dems do it openly. Even under ostensibly pro-family George W. Bush
the State Department was pushing the homosexual agenda around the world. I
personally confronted the diplomatic staff at the US embassy in Riga, Latvia in
2007 for helping to organize a “Gay Pride” parade in defiance of an
overwhelming pro-family majority in that conservative nation.

Back
to Russia. Recently I was interviewed by the BBC for a documentary the
producers said was about “the global culture war.” However, the interview
focused heavily on my reaction to the reports of — Surprise! — an alleged
increase in “anti-gay” violence in countries that have passed laws against
homosexuality” particularly Russia and Uganda These reports (which they never showed
actually showed me) were allegedly prepared by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International, the United Nations, and Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG),
bastions of impartiality all. (Btw, SMUG is suing me for “Crimes Against
Humanity” for preaching against homosexuality in their country). http://www.scottlively.net/2012/06/28/my-analysis-of-the-smug-lawsuit/

This
brings us back full circle to the theme of this essay. I told the BBC
interviewer that I did not view any of these sources as trustworthy on the
issue of homosexuality and cited the Matthew Shepard and David Kato murders as
evidence. Indeed, I had already accused Human Rights Watch of indulging in
pro-“gay” propaganda in their first video purporting to show Russian anti-gay
violence (released to coincide with the Olympics), where I exposed the LGBT
movement’s fraud in their characterizations of the Shepard and Kato incidents: http://www.scottlively.net/2014/02/10/the-anti-russian-human-rights-watch-video-is-a-hoax/

So here’s the moment of truth for
pro-family analysts and advocates. Do you really grasp the extent to which LGBT
leaders and activists will go to serve their own interests? You’ve seen what
they do at the street level, against Christian businesses, etc. What would that
deviltry look like on an international level, if, say, the President of the
United States were a “gay” activist?

In
August of 2013 I sent a open letter to President Putin, thanking him for
signing the anti-propaganda law. In it I warned him “not to assume that you
have fully solved the problem by the enactment of this law. The battle to
protect your society from homosexualization has only just begun, and you may be
surprised to discover in the coming months and years just how aggressively many
world leaders will work to try to intimidate and coerce you to capitulate to
homosexualist demands.” http://www.scottlively.net/2013/08/30/an-open-letter-to-president-vladimir-putin/

Regardless
of where one stands on Ukraine or Vladimir Putin, just for a moment consider
where the pro-family movement would be if it hadn't been for the Ukraine coup.
Russia would still be (relatively speaking) a respected member of the
international community offering an alternative, genuinely pro-family model for
social policy. There would likely be at least a half-dozen nations which would
have adopted the anti-propaganda law for themselves (with many more considering
it) and there would be a healthy international debate raging on pro-family vs
LGBT visions for the future. I believe the tide would probably have begun to
turn in our favor, at least on the global scene, if not yet in the US or EU.

Is it really so far-fetched to
believe that morally wicked, Imperialistic, Alinsky-ite Obama (credibly alleged
to be a homosexual himself) started the Ukrainian civil war to punish Russia
for opposing the “core value” of America, the priority of his State Department?
Or (more importantly to the “gays”) to prevent the Russians from leading a
pro-family counter-revolution in the world?

Are
you as a pro-family conservative really going to accept the word of Barack
Obama, John McCain and the mainstream media that Russia is the bad guy in this
story? If you do, you really don’t know your enemy — and I’m not talking about
Putin.

Next
time you hear the implication that Russia has created “a climate of hate and
fear” in Ukraine, Russia or anywhere else, just remember whose go-to strategy
this is for smearing its opponents and how deeply they are entrenched in the
media, the White House and now the GOP establishment as well.

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Murder, Intrigues, Confusions, CIA, Sodomy,
Putin

When the
mass media side with homosexual activists against Christians, the public
disagrees.

When the
mass media side with Obama against the American people, the public disagrees.

When the
mass media side with an anti-Putin version in a case involving a Putin opponent
“mysteriously” murdered, does the public agree?

According
to Paul
Craig Roberts, who was a Reagan official, the “mysterious” murder of
a Putin opponent was a destabilizing plot by CIA in the spirit of Obama hostilities
against Russia.

And
according to Dr. Scott Lively, the most prominent authority on the evils of gay
agenda, in the early 1990s Bill Clinton struck down a ban on homosexuals working
at CIA and other intelligence agencies.

By
Clinton courtesy, for more than two decades homosexuals have increasingly been there:
CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.

Dr.
Lively makes it clear that wherever they are, homosexual activists produce
intrigues, confusions and havoc, always using their occupations for their greater
cause and always for its opponents’ disadvantage. And homosexuals occupying
posts in the greatest intelligence agency in the world are capable of provoking
the biggest damages in the world against those not aligning themselves with
their agenda.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Justin Peters: an American Cessationist
Teaching “Apologetics” to Brazilian Pentecostals

By Julio
Severo

A
guest speaker of VINACC (a Brazilian conference of evangelicals), an American evangelical
made headlines by
blasting preachers of the Prosperity Gospel as “false prophets.”

Justin Peters

Justin
Peters gave his apologetics lecture at an Assemblies of God church in Campina
Grande, Brazil in February 16, 2015. VINACC held in this church its Second
International Apologetics Meeting of Paraiba.

In
the event, Peters said, “Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, Myles
Munroe, Joyce Meyer and others are, all of them, false prophets.
What they teach is not the Gospel preached by our Lord Jesus Christ, but a
teaching with no Bible basis.”

Yet,
his criticism did not stopped at the “false prophets.” He also taught, in the
name of Christian apologetics, about the gift of tongues and “how God does not
speak to us” through prophecies and revelations.

In
the Doctrinal Statement of his website, Peters
says “the miraculous gifts of tongues, interpretation of tongues,
divine revelation and physical healing” were gifts only to Jesus’ Apostles. He
also says that these “gifts are no longer in operation today… and they are,
therefore, unnecessary.”

Unnecessary?
Power evangelism was an essential and vital component of the ministry of Jesus
and his disciples. Supernatural gifts are tools of Jesus for spreading his
Gospel. These gifts have been vital for effective evangelism in Brazil, to
equip Christians to confront dark forces and deliver people from Satan’s claws.

If
they were extremely necessary for Jesus and his disciples, why would they be
unnecessary today? Have the dark forces died away?

To
treat the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit as “unnecessary” has never been
a part of the true Gospel. Cessationism (the heretical doctrine that says the
supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased 2,000 years ago and that they are
no longer available today) has never been a part of the ministry of Jesus and
his Apostles.

If Peters
taught such “apologetics” in an Assemblies of God church in Brazil, surely he
offended many Brazilians! Pentecostals, neo-Pentecostals and charismatics
comprise most of Brazilian evangelicals.

I
have no hard time with criticism at abuses by Calvinist, Lutheran, Pentecostal
and charismatic preachers. But to label Pentecostals as “false prophets” or
“heretical preachers” just because the critic’s main motivation is cessationism
is hypocrisy. To teach against the Holy Spirit is a heresy.

Justin
Peters eventually showed in Brazil that Myles Munroe, Kenneth Copeland and
believers in prophecies, tongues and revelations are all headed to Hell.
Apparently, the motivation for his opposition to Pentecostalism and the
supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit for today is his love for his petty human
religious doctrines that limit God and his power and actions — disguised as
love for “truth.”

This
kind of “apologetics” — deserving a fair title of false apologetics — would
have caused trouble in the churches of Apostle Paul, who saw a lot of abuse of
the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit in the church of Corinth, but his
answer was not to ban them or to preach cessationism. His answer was to correct
the abuses. Never did he condemn, criticize or lambaste these gifts. Never did
he discourage his people from seeking more supernatural gifts.

Unsurprisingly,
the false apologetics of Peters caused confusion among Brazilians. And his
ministry gave a public report
of what happened:

“At the end of
his session, to give a preview at the next session Justin spoke about the abuse
of tongues and how God does and does not speak to us. Apparently that rattled
some cages so to speak. Some folks apparently confronted the organizers and
convinced them to require Justin to adjust/modify his message as to not mention
tongues and the abuse of tongues, under the premise that speaking on such
things would offend many. Of course Justin explained that he cannot, in good
conscience and before God, adjust his message or water it down to suit the
proclivities of an audience. In reality the only thing which can help folks get
out from under false doctrine is not placating, but speaking the truth in love.
Justin told them this and they forbad him from speaking the rest of his
seminar… shame on the organizers for having so little apparent backbone. Of
course I am sure that ardent sheep among the organizers did strive to not allow
compromise to happen. Alas it did. This is another reason why we ought not, as
believers, to yoke with reprobates. Better to have a small conference holding
to the truth than a huge gathering which compromises truth. Those under false
doctrine will not bend easily because false doctrine is a spiritual battle.”

“False
doctrine”: to believe in the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit for today.

“Speaking
the truth in love”: to teach cessationism.

The
VINACC public was not upset because Justin preached against Benny Hinn and
others. In fact, they were there to hear him attack these preachers. They got
upset because he wanted also to attack their personal experiences with God.

Because
Peters is an American and does not know that Brazilian evangelicalism is
essentially Pentecostal, he was unable or unwilling to conceal his motivation
for blasting Prosperity Theology preachers.

For
his human theology, Christians who speak in tongues, hear God’s voice and have
spiritual prophecies and revelations are as “false Christians” as all the other
preachers condemned by him.

I
disagree with Peters’ theology. In my view, his cessationism is a heresy. Yet,
I applaud his sincerity and honesty. In this respect, anti-Pentecostal
Calvinist critics in Brazil have a lot to learn from him.

Monday, February 23, 2015

US Names First Global Envoy for Homosexual
Agenda

By Julio
Severo

Comment by Peter
LaBarbera:Folks, if we’ve learned anything from
Barack Obama, it’s that there are no limits to his pandering to the homosexual
and transgender activist movement. This latest development described by my
Brazilian friend Julio Severo is an insult to the majority of nations around
the world that choose not to celebrate the Sin of Sodom like so many liberal
Americans–note I did not say all Americans–do.

Where is the Special U.S. Envoy for
Adultery? Fornication? Pornography? Abortion? I’d better be careful: I
don’t want to give the Obama bureaucracy any ideas. This is neo-imperialism at
its worst–rather than being a force for good in the world, America is now using
its money and power to advocate for sexual immorality and gender rebellion
across the globe–as we re-define “human rights” to accommodate destructive yet
changeable behaviors.

If the Democrats are defeated in
2016, I would hope that the next administration will reverse actions like this,
but that is far from certain to happen given the Republicans’ craven timidity
on this issue. The Shining City on a Hill which Reagan invoked has turned into
a Smog-covered Slum spreading moral pollution under Obama. And his shame
becomes our shame until we, the citizens of this once-great nation, right the
wrongs that are being carried out abroad in our name.

The
United States is naming its first international envoy for homosexual rights.
This is a historic event, because no nation, even the United Nations, has ever
appointed a homosexual ambassador for global homosexual rights.

Every
single major news outlet in the U.S. is covering this historic event.

In a
press release, the U.S. State Department said Randy Berry, an openly homosexual
diplomat, will be its special envoy to promote homosexual rights. State
Department Secretary John Kerry said, “We’re working to overturn laws that criminalize
consensual same-sex conduct in countries around the world.”

The
U.S. government’s concern is not only the more than 75 countries that
criminalize homosexual activity, but also to target nations trying to resist
the onslaught of homosexual groups from United States and Europe, especially
because of several pro-family laws that have taken effect around the world in
recent years. The Washington Post gave some examples, “Russian President Vladimir Putin
signed legislation in 2013 banning ‘homosexual propaganda,’ and Nigeria banned
same-sex marriage and restricted homosexual behavior, including public displays
of affection between gays.”

Kerry
says Randy Berry will help the Obama administration in its global efforts to
press foreign countries to eliminate laws that criminalize homosexual activity.

According
to “The
Advocate,” the
idea of appointing a special envoy for LGBT issues was championed by several
groups, including the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and the Human Rights
Campaign (HRC), the largest homosexualist group in the U.S., whose co-founder,
Terrance Patrick Bean, was arrested for homosexual assault on a child
last year.

In a
press release,
left-wing AJWS applauded the historic State Department appointment of Randy
Berry as America’s first special global envoy for LGBT issues around the world.

According
to its own website,
AJWS is the fourth largest funder of the gay agenda worldwide. Since 2005, AJWS
has invested nearly $9.5 million in global LGBT rights. Last year, AJWS
provided $2.97 million to 47 organizations promoting the gay agenda in 14
countries.

If
you wonder how a leftist group promoting the gay agenda is Jewish, remember
that the leftist U.S. president promoting the same agenda is allegedly
Protestant.

According
to the homosexual newspaper “Washington Blade,” HRC president Chad Griffin applauded the State Department.

“At a moment when many LGBT people around the
world are facing persecution and daily violence, this unprecedented appointment
shows a historic commitment to the principle that LGBT rights are human
rights,” he said. “President Obama and Secretary Kerry have shown tremendous
leadership in championing the rights of LGBT people abroad. Now, working
closely with this new envoy, we’ve got to work harder than ever to create new
allies, push back on human rights violators, and support the brave leaders and
organizations that fight for LGBT rights around the world.”

The
appointment of an openly homosexual diplomat as a LGBT envoy sends a message
that the United States will remain on the forefront and leadership of promoting
the gay agenda around the world. It shows also its determination of pushing
back Russia, Nigeria and other nations.

Now
the United States will make the world freer to adherents of homosexual acts and
ideology and less free for Christians and others who do not accept homosexual
depravity, including Russia and Nigeria that are trying to protect their
children from homosexual propaganda.

Every
single homosexual activist around the world is benefited by the U.S. move.

Every
single practicing Christian is threatened by it.

I
wonder what will happen to Christians like me. My book “O Movimento
Homossexual” (The Homosexual Movement), published originally by the Brazilian
branch of Bethany House Publishers in 1998, made Brazilian gay groups furious
because I exposed that they were bringing to Brazil the gay ideology from
America. In fact, many of their militants had been trained and funded in
America. My exposé brought threats against me. But now, with the U.S.
government strongly siding with international homosexual activists, they will
receive more training and funding to advance and threaten, and Christians like
me run the risk of being labeled “human rights violator” and “criminals.”

America,
which was founded by men who believed in the Bible, is determined to challenge
their Christian convictions, including their belief that God destroyed Sodom
because of its homosexual sins. George Washington, for example, saw the homosexual behavior as abominable and detestable.
But the current America, a superpower, thinks that she is greater than
Washington and the God who punished the homosexual sin of Sodom. And a greater
Republican presence in the Senate and House of Representatives has not
increased opposition to this national and international threat.

Seeing
the relentless advance of the gay agenda in the U.S., several American
evangelical leaders are investing in the spread of a resistance in other
nations. HRC issued a report entitled “Export of Hate,” denouncing American
Christian leaders who, contrary to the official U.S. foreign policy promoting
the gay agenda around the world, are promoting a global resistance to this
agenda.

Of
course, when the Evil itself calls it “Export of Hate” is exactly the contrary.
Real “Export of Hate” — hate for family, children and Christians — is the U.S.
government funding homosexual activism around the world.

I miss
the days when the biggest U.S. export was the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with the
blessing of the U.S. government. Today, it is sodomy…

It is
no wonder that Billy Graham said, “America is just as wicked as Sodom and
Gomorrah.” And often he mentions, “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to
apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

The
number 1 enemy in the HRC report is Rev. Scott Lively, author of “Pink
Swastika,” who has distinguished himself by inspiring Russians to take a solid
stand against the Western homosexualist policies. The report also points that
in addition to Russia, he also travels to Uganda, Eastern Europe and England.

“The homosexualist movement is not
simply seeking social tolerance, or acceptance, but political power and
control. They want the power to stamp out all disapproval of homosexuality in
your society and to compel every citizen (especially the youth) to embrace the
view that homosexual conduct is good and normal. They ask for a place at the
table, but once they have one all the social ideals they exploited to get
there, such as social tolerance, freedom of speech, and respect for cultural
diversity, are discarded. In place of those ideals is inserted a new backwards
and upside-down morality and world-view that condemns all disapproval of
homosexuality as a new fictionalized form of bigotry. I have termed this
phenomenon ‘Homo-fascism’ and defined it as a form of extreme left-wing,
regressive radicalism which seeks to establish rigid authoritarian controls
over all public discourse and government policies regarding sexual norms and
proprieties, and to enact punitive measures against conscientious objectors that
would punish or suppress all disapproval of homosexuality and related sexual
behaviors (that would of course even though they deny it, quickly include a
sexual indoctrination and exploitation of children). In the coming months and
years Russia and Her people will be increasingly portrayed by emotion laden and
abusive hyperbole as bigoted haters, intent on exterminating homosexuals.
Indeed, the propaganda campaign on that theme has already been initiated, with
video footage purporting to show Russian neo-Nazis beating homosexuals now
being circulated on the Internet, along with the false implication that this is
the intent of your policy.”

Saturday, February 21, 2015

George Washington: “It is the duty of all nations to
acknowledge God”

Comment by Julio Severo:My feeling by reading this article about George Washington was sheer
joy! The nations need men like him. His America was much better and different
than modern America.

George Washington

George
Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732.

Washington
was unanimously chosen as the Army’s commander-in-chief, unanimously chosen as
president of the Constitutional Convention and unanimously chosen as the first
U.S. president.

As
general, Washington acknowledged God after victories throughout the Revolution
and as president thanked God for the Constitution, Oct. 3, 1789: “Whereas it is
the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God … I do
recommend … rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks, for … the
favorable interpositions of His Providence … we experienced in the course and
conclusion of the late war … for the peaceable and rational manner in which we
have been enabled to establish constitutions of government.”

Washington
was Anglican, and after the Revolution, Episcopalian. George Washington’s
great-great-grandfather, Rev. Lawrence Washington, was an Anglican minister in
Essex, England, who lost his position when the Puritans won the Civil War.

George
Washington’s great-grandfather, John Washington, immigrated to Virginia and
became a planter, politician and militia leader.

A
local Anglican church was renamed “Washington” in honor of John Washington.

When
he died, John Washington left to the church a tablet with the Ten Commandments,
on which he inscribed: “Being heartily sorry from the bottome of my hart for my
sins past, most humbly desiring forgiveness of the same from the Almighty God
(my Saviour) and Redeemer, in whom and by the merits of Jesus Christ, I trust
and believe assuredly to be saved, and to have full remission and forgiveness
of all my sins.”

George
Washington’s grandfather, Lawrence, was Anglican, as was his father, Augustine,
who served as a vestryman at the Anglican Truro Parish.

George
Washington became vestryman in Truro Parish and was godfather in baptism to a
niece and several nephews.

As
general, George Washington had the Declaration of Independence read to his
troops, then ordered chaplains placed in each regiment, stating July 9, 1776:
“The General hopes and trusts, that every officer and man, will endeavour so to
live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier, defending the dearest Rights and
Liberties of his country.”

General
Washington wrote at Valley Forge, May 2, 1778: “To the distinguished character
of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to laud the more distinguished
Character of Christian.”

To
the Delaware Indian Chiefs who brought three youths to be trained in American
schools, General Washington stated, May 12, 1779: “You do well to wish to learn
our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ.”

On
Oct. 2, 1775, General George Washington issued the order: “Any … soldier who
shall hereafter be detected playing at toss-up, pitch, and hustle, or any other
games of chance … shall without delay be confined and punished. … The General
does not mean by the above to discourage sports of exercise or recreation, he
only means to discountenance and punish gaming.”

On
Feb. 26, 1776, General Washington issued the orders: “All … soldiers are
positively forbid playing at cards and other games of chance. At this time of
public distress men may find enough to do in the service of their God and their
country, without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality.”

On
July 4, 1775, General Washington ordered: “The General … requires … observance
of those articles of war … which forbid profane cursing, swearing and
drunkenness; And … requires … punctual attendance of Divine Services.”

As
recorded in “The Writings of George Washington” (March 10, 1778, 11:83-84, U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1934), George Washington ordered: “At a General
Court Marshall … Lieutt. Enslin of Colo. Malcom’s Regiment tried for attempting
to commit sodomy, with John Monhort a soldier … and do sentence him to be
dismiss’d the service with Infamy. His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief
approves the sentence and with Abhorrence and Detestation of such Infamous
Crimes orders Liett. Enslin to be drummed out of Camp tomorrow morning by all
the Drummers and Fifers in the Army never to return.”

In
his Farewell Address, 1796, Washington stated: “Disorders and miseries, which
result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the
absolute power of an Individual … (who) turns this disposition to the purposes
of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. … The spirit of
encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and
thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. … Let there
be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the
instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are
destroyed.”

Washington
added in his Farewell Address, 1796: “Of all the dispositions and habits which
lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to
subvert these great Pillars of human happiness.”

Friday, February 20, 2015

Turkey, U.S. sign deal to train, equip
Islamists against Syria

The
United States and Turkey signed,
according to Reuters, an agreement on Thursday to train and equip Islamists to
overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Turkey
will provide an equal number of trainers to work alongside their American
military counterparts, said an official at the U.S. military’s Central Command.

Reuters
said that the agreement is “to train and equip Syrian moderates to fight the
Islamic State.” Yet, the same Reuters report said, “Turkey hopes the training
will also bolster the weakened and divided Syrian opposition in their war
against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”

It is
highly doubtful that these “moderate” Islamists will fight the Islamic State
(ISIS). In fact, according to WorldNetDaily,
“moderate” Syrian rebels trained in 2012 by U.S. military instructors later
joined the Islamic State.

WorldNetDaily
was first to report the U.S., Turkey and Jordan were running a training base
for the Syrian rebels in Jordan in 2012 and 2013. Again, the same Jordan will train
similar Islamists.

Why use
an alleged war against ISIS to expand training for Islamists who eventually
join ISIS? Reuters said that Saudi Arabia also offered a site for such
training. Saudi Arabia is notorious for its total ban on Christianity. In
contrast, Syria, whose president the U.S., Turkey and Saudi Arabia want to
overthrow, has been known for its tolerance for a Christian community that has
existed in Syria for 2,000 years.

U.S.-supported
Syrian rebels have been known for atrocities against Christians in Syria.

It
seems that a bigger Republican presence in the U.S. Congress has increased
pressure to support these “moderate” Islamists fighting Assad.

Even
though Obama, the Republicans and the mainstream media insist on calling these
Islamic rebels “moderate,” Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan was forthright:
“The term ‘moderate Islam’ is ugly and offensive — Islam is Islam.”

Actually,
if the Syrian rebels were “moderate,” Saudi Arabia would never support them.
William Murray, president of the Religious Freedom Coalition, said
“the only way to stop the tide of Islamic terror in the Middle East and the
world is to shut down the funding state of that terror, Saudi Arabia.”

If
the U.S. were serious about a real war against ISIS, it would not be helping
Turkey and Saudi Arabia to overthrow Assad, the only Islamic dictator in the
Middle East who is fighting ISIS and protecting Christian minorities.

If
the U.S. were serious about a real war against ISIS, it would be helping to
overthrow Islamic dictatorships in Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

The
U.S.-Turkey agreement to expand training of Islamists in Syria will only expand
persecution against Christians.

What
can you do? If you are an American Christian, you have a responsibility to
speak up, because your tax money is being used to fund U.S. military trainers
and their Islamist trainees against Syria. Because of these wicked policies,
there is blood in the hands of American taxpayers. The Obama administration,
with Republican assistance, makes your tax-money an accessory to the murder of
Christians.

Contact
right now your representative and senator and say: “I do not want my money
shedding Christian blood in Syria! Please, stop it!”

Because
this is an international crisis involving Syrian Christians and their families,
international Christians can also help by contacting the members of U.S. Congress
to condemn Turkey for its support for ISIS and Syrian rebels and condemn Saudi
Arabia for its blatant anti-Christian ban.

The
U.S. Congress should also be encouraged to praise the Syrian government for
being the Muslim government that most protects Christian minorities in the Middle
East.

If
the U.S. wants to defeat ISIS, it should sign an agreement with Syria. If the
U.S. wants nothing to do with Syria, it should do as President James Madison
said, “To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations having
correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality toward belligerent
nations and to exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities.”

If it
is hard for a Christian America to support Syria for the sake of persecuted
Christians, it should be impossible for her to support Turkey or Saudi Arabia.

Turkey
was responsible for the worst genocide against Christians in the 20th century.

Saudi
Arabia has a total ban on Christianity.

America
should have a total ban on agreements with both radical Islamic nations.